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SATURDAY 10 MAY 1969 130th day - 235 days to come

Rcd. the May PLAYTHINGS and the final $500 of the advance from Random House.

Wrote a letter to Hank Simmons and sent him the reviews of the Parker Games.

Wrote to Al Samuels of aco telling him I am pleased with the progress on TOTALLY-- and asking him about FITTING & PROPER.

(cont. from 5/14) [5/14] company for "Papercraft." When they got back form lunch they played some ACQUIRE and one woman said she'd buy a copy.

She called again to check on some games of mine she was put- ting on the record form I brought her. She finds it dif- ficult to write in the small spaces I provided.

A reporter staff writer, Henry Burn Pelham, from PACE mag- azine, a California based publication, called. He got my name from Bill Caruson. They are doing an article on the long time space trips will take going to the planets and how the time will be filled. He'd like to come tomorrow to interview me about the place of games in this context. Checked with BB and then called him back and invited him for supper tomorrow.

Vol. II no. 5 of STRATEGY & TACTICS came (the one that was missing). It had a very enthousiastic review for the game TRAFALGAR.

The copyright material came from Barbara Francis.

Rcd. a letter from Tom Atwater. Rockwell of Stancraft is moving again on the peg games and would like to see TEMPO, INTERPLAY and ODD OR EVEN. May negotiate right away.

Claude and Anne over. Claude brought SPACE CHECKERS, PLOT, & WORD TRAP, a word game in a booklet form. $4.

Played DIGIT, part of a game, using a 2-minute timer and the following scoring, and rules concerning placement of cards. The one who turns the timer scores the goal plus 10 points for each card. If he is incorrect he scores the goal plus 50 as a penalty. The cards he uses are put out of the game. The others score the goal plus 5 points for each card. If incorrect once they announce they have reached the goal, they are penalized the goal plus 25. (cont. on 5/9)